Sometimes when we get bored at the firehouse, we use some hot glue to glue pocket change to the asphalt out in front of the station. Then we sit out in front and let the laughs roll in!
<< <i>Sometimes when we get bored at the firehouse, we use some hot glue to glue pocket change to the asphalt out in front of the station. Then we sit out in front and let the laughs roll in! >>
Sounds like a few firefighters have been breathing a little too much smoke.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I was walking one of my favorite four-mile loops last week and found a heavily salted clad quarter on the shoulder of the road. A half-mile later, I found a penny, and then about 300m past that, I found a nickel. With 3/4 of a mile left, I only needed a dime to "hit for the cycle," so I started paying serious attention to the ground.
Just about 150m farther along I spotted a fairly muddy $1 bill in some wet leaves at the edge of the pavement, but that was it. No dime; no cycle; but a memorable day for finding money on the ground. The only time I ever found at least one coin in each of the four commonly circulated denominations on a single walk or run was about ten years ago when I found a little pile of about twenty coins inexplicably sitting on a wide, paved shoulder.
However, on Sunday morning I was walking into the local grocery store, and I glanced (as usual) into the coin return tray of the Coinstar machine. It was brimming with coins, mostly dimes and nickels, and only a few of them Canadian. There were a couple of quarters and two or three cents as well, so I guess it counts as hitting for the cycle--though not in the great outdoors.
Early Saturday and Sunday mornings are good at this machine, because the already-mostly-drunk S.U. students cashing in their loose change to buy more beer late on Friday and Saturday evenings seem not to notice the coins that fall through into the tray.
Ah, the myriad forms of "coin collecting"!
"Coin collecting problem"? What "coin collecting problem"?
While I was walking through the parking lot looking for pennies, my buddy picks up a fifty dollar bill. At least he bought lunch and he used his coupon.
I've always picked them up. Each time I tell myself that I'll stop doing that the day I'm a rich man!
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I have always picked up loose change on the ground. Around June of last year (2007) my son and I decided to put all found money into a jar and count it at the end of the year. Six month haul: $43.15.
My nine year old was very surprised, as was I. Now we look all the time. He thinks we will get over $100 this year. I bet he's right...
<< <i>2. it cant be on a bathroom floor lol. ewww. >>
What if it were an Indian cent?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
**BUT** about twenty five years ago, when my older daughter was about 5 or 6, we went to New Hope PA for a day of tourist walking among the shops etc. Erica was a little quite most of time....rather odd for here. Halfway home, she asks....Is it OK to keep money If you find it on the ground.
Sure, said I, thinking pennies, or maybe a quarter.
Instead, she hands me ten $50 bills, folded tightly four times, with a tiny gold money clip around them.
All day long, You would also be suprised by the number of people who do not take their change from the vending machines at work. I will post all the monies I found at the end of the year.
I pick up cents, nickels, dimes, it doesn't matterif you want to try an experiment throw a $20 down in front of me and I'll pick that up to. It all adds up.
The item about Bill Gates was to demonstrate how quickly he is "earning" money. In the time it takes for a person to pick up a cent from the ground, he's made $25K.
Many years ago I read about a star basketball player. If you took his annual salary and divided it by the number of baskets he'd made. he got right around $20k per basket.
Anyway, Yes, my kids and I pick up all the change we find.
You bet!!! Unfortunately, a co-worker of mine and I were walking to work one recent morning and he beat me to the five dollar bill that was laying on the sidewalk!!! (It was dark....)
I will usaully pick up the coins. If they look dirty or are in some sort of crud I leave them. I did find 75.00 dollars once in a Walgreens parking lot. I opened the car door and a there it was a nice little pile of money.
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I was once snowboarding in utah when a guy next to me in a group of people picked up a penny in the middle of the snow and exclaimed " cool a penny from 1909" he left before I could get to him but I still wonder if it was a s vdb
If they look relatively clean. Some pennies I get in change look like they have every disease known to man stuck to them. Usually about half the coin is covered in some shade of green. I throw those away.
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<< <i>Depends on who's behind me!
<< <i>i found a merc dime on the sidewalk afew days ago. beat up bad, but nonthe less a merc. 1941. >>
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<< <i>i found a merc dime on the sidewalk afew days ago. beat up bad, but nonthe less a merc. 1941. >>
Sweet!
I pick up pennies when they aren't obviously covered in filth (like being stuck to the sidewalk with gum )
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This is what I've heard.Tail up leave it there even if it has VDB on it.
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<< <i>Sometimes when we get bored at the firehouse, we use some hot glue to glue pocket change to the asphalt out in front of the station. Then we sit out in front and let the laughs roll in! >>
Sounds like a few firefighters have been breathing a little too much smoke.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
sorry you left that wide open for me.
Just about 150m farther along I spotted a fairly muddy $1 bill in some wet leaves at the edge of the pavement, but that was it. No dime; no cycle; but a memorable day for finding money on the ground. The only time I ever found at least one coin in each of the four commonly circulated denominations on a single walk or run was about ten years ago when I found a little pile of about twenty coins inexplicably sitting on a wide, paved shoulder.
However, on Sunday morning I was walking into the local grocery store, and I glanced (as usual) into the coin return tray of the Coinstar machine. It was brimming with coins, mostly dimes and nickels, and only a few of them Canadian. There were a couple of quarters and two or three cents as well, so I guess it counts as hitting for the cycle--though not in the great outdoors.
Early Saturday and Sunday mornings are good at this machine, because the already-mostly-drunk S.U. students cashing in their loose change to buy more beer late on Friday and Saturday evenings seem not to notice the coins that fall through into the tray.
Ah, the myriad forms of "coin collecting"!
disclaimer... I didn't read all the other replies so I'm sure somebody already beat me to the punch...
My nine year old was very surprised, as was I. Now we look all the time. He thinks we will get over $100 this year. I bet he's right...
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I read somewhere that Bill Gates wouldn't even bend over to pick up $25k.
Maybe I should follow Bill around
did i say that?
2. it cant be on a bathroom floor lol. ewww.
<< <i>2. it cant be on a bathroom floor lol. ewww. >>
What if it were an Indian cent?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
**BUT** about twenty five years ago, when my older daughter was about 5 or 6, we went to New Hope PA for a day of tourist walking among the shops etc. Erica was a little quite most of time....rather odd for here. Halfway home, she asks....Is it OK to keep money If you find it on the ground.
Sure, said I, thinking pennies, or maybe a quarter.
Instead, she hands me ten $50 bills, folded tightly four times, with a tiny gold money clip around them.
That was the start of her savings account!
In late Jan 08, on a windy day three $20 bills blew right at my feet, and then in early Feb 08 another $5 bill was heading right towards me
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<< <i>2. it cant be on a bathroom floor lol. ewww. >>
People seem to like throwing them in urinals.
<< <i>Do you bend over to pick up pennies?? >>
If no ones around. Yes.
Many years ago I read about a star basketball player. If you took his annual salary and divided it by the number of baskets he'd made. he got right around $20k per basket.
Anyway, Yes, my kids and I pick up all the change we find.
Reminds me of an old Jewish joke.
How was copper wire invented?
Two Jews found the same penny!
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Also, I keep have a recurring dream that it is raining pennies.
What does this mean???
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Chris
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